 My name is Mariala Zacarias and I am the seventh artist in the Brooklyn Museum's Rockook series. For supple bead I made four different sculptures. Three of them are in the lobby and they're interacting with the architecture. One of them is part of an installation in the Great Hall. These pieces are inspired by the Wilmsmore murals which are on permanent loan at the Brooklyn Museum. My works are three-dimensional paintings. The process is really long. I mean you have to create the shape sort of the armature and then I build the layers really slowly which might take about two weeks before the first sanding is done and then there's a couple of sanding codes so it's about a month to get a really nice sculptural part and then you have to paint it. The colors and the patterns that I use in my sculptures usually relate to the theme or the space that I'm working with. So in this case I definitely looked closely at the colors that were used in the Wilmsmore murals. However the patterns are my original designs. I wanted to make them look like they were climbing on walls like paintings that have come alive. I was inspired by the concept of resilience in the murals. The murals were commissioned by the WPA in the 1930s and most of the art that was being painted then was representational but there were a couple people who were in the avant-garde who saw you know the talent of Ilya Walotovsky, Green, Kelpie and Swindon as important enough to give them the walls to create this this works. It wasn't until the 1980s that you know there was a big movement to bring them back to life and restore them. They were created during their depression and the country was giving money to artists to create art in public spaces and you know all these public housings were built then. Workers were thought as important enough to create housing for them and to bring art to them and I think it's important to remember this in a time like today.